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American Public Media

American Public Radio is a producer of over 20 public radio programs. Many of their programs are available for free to stream or download from their site or to subscribe to as a podcast, and some can be subscribed to and downloaded from Audible.com. Popular podcasted programs include Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, parts of Marketplace, Future Tense, and Weekend America. Some of their programs offered through Audible.com are A Prairie Home Companion, The Splendid Table, Speaking of Faith, Marketplace, and Marketplace Money.

They also produce American RadioWorks audio documentaries that cover a wide variety of contemporary issues. All of these documentaries are available for free as streaming audio at: americanradioworks.publicradio.org. And most of these documentaries can be downloaded from Audible.com for a reasonable price.


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The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four decades later, King remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America. But that's not the way he was viewed in the last year of his life.

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The welfare reform law signed by President Clinton in August 1996 was designed to "end welfare as we know it." To a striking degree, it did: the number of people getting a welfare check dropped by more than half nationwide.

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by Daniel Zwerdling
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Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific....

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The "American dream" has powered the hopes and aspirations of Americans for generations. It began as a plain but revolutionary notion: each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition.

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by Michael Montgomery
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In 1948, the De Beers company began to use the slogan, "A Diamond Is Forever", and touched off the romance of the century.

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by John Biewen
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Today, in the all-volunteer military, about half of all service people are married with children, so the burdens of fighting these wars are shared back home.

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by Chris Farrell
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In this hour long audio documentary from American Public Media, Chris Farrell and John Biewen jump all over the world to see how the latest wave of globalization is affecting people from Pittsburgh to Bangladesh to India to China.

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The 1968 presidential election was a watershed in American politics. After dominating the political landscape for more than a generation, the Democratic Party crumbled.

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by Catherine Winter
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During an 18-month investigation, the 9/11 Commission heard extraordinary testimony about the terrorist attacks on America....

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